Change the details a bit and yep- this is weekly snippets of conversation from our house, complete with me gazing at his face like he's a space alien while my brain silently wonders "What is wrong with him? Doesn't he understand what I'm saying?"

Haha, these types of conversations happen all the time in our house. In fact, we had one almost exactly like it driving to our pre-marriage marriage counseling one day. The topic that day: Active Listening. The irony killed. I am, however, less amused at how little that particular lesson soaked in ...